I have issues. I know I have them because I have had the registration page for the Wine and Dine Half Marathon open since yesterday. I have been staring at this page trying with everything I’ve got to NOT register for this race. I called Doug yesterday to try and talk me out of it. He gave me all the reasons I’ve told myself already why I shouldn’t do it. He thought he talked me down off the ledge.
Since I still have the registration page open, he clearly did not.
The fact that all I’m hearing about is the W&D (not just on the blogs, but friends registering too) is just making it that much harder.
Saying I loved this half marathon is an understatement. I LOVED this half marathon! Plus, if I did it, I would get my Coast to Coast medal…awesome!
I would love to run down this road again…
Reasons I shouldn’t do this race:
As I’ve mentioned, I’m getting married. Our honeymoon is in August (at the end of which I’m doing the Dumbo Double Dare – I have issues, remember?) My honeymoon is maxing out practically all of my vacation time. It is also maxing out a lot most all of my finances. So, no money and no time equals no race, right?
WRONG! I really really really really REALLY want to do this race! I want to run it so bad, that I’m willing to fly down Friday night, run on Saturday night and then fly back on Sunday night…and without Doug! …although he actually has off that Monday, whereas I do not, stupid teachers and they’re 100 days off.
My only hope is that I hold off long enough that the race gets sold out. But not running in it will make me soooooooo sad. Hmmmm, maybe I can cash in my “Spring Training” trip and go with my dad in November! Doug can’t say no to my father daughter annual trip to Florida! (I will explain that in another post).
Being a “responsible” adult sucks, but I may have found a loop hole!
I am getting married this June and also in the same spot you are, but I couldn’t talk myself out of it. I totally registered!
My wedding is in June too! When’s yours? …and I still haven’t talked myself out of it :/
I haven’t done this race, but I really want to!! I was all set to register until I realized I’m out of town already. Darn. Hopefully next year. Good luck with your dilemma – I’ve been there done that (and usually end up registering).
It’s definitely a race that you shouldn’t miss, especially as a RunDisney person! Hopefully you’ll get to do it next year…and then you’ll want to do it every year too!
It is so hard to resist registering for runDisney evens when you see all the web chatter about them! Wine and Dine really is such a unique one which is really why I like to do it (that and it’s my anniversary race!), but I really do need to scale back on the amount of races/ trips I’m doing each year…it’s getting expensive and as a poor college student (haha, doesn’t that make me sound young!) my credit card can’t handle it!
It does get so expensive, even for those of us who are just poor (I don’t get to sound young that way lol). It’s extra tempting because this is the best chance I have to get my Coast to Coast since I’m signed up for the Disneyland 1/2, PLUS I have to defer my registration fee to another race within the year…the more I talk myself out of it, the more I talk myself into it : (
So Funny! I go through similar anxiety when the RunDisney races open. They all are so fun and hard to pass up!!! I seem to want to run all of the Walt Disney World events!
They are so fun! And so addicting! It’s actually a goal of mine (when I win lotto lol) to do all the Disney events in one year.